Refractory Faffery
I managed to get back in to an abandoned factory I thought was lost forever and was secured by fences and security guards. Now it seems all the guards have gone and the gates were wide open. And who am I to refuse another chance to visit an old favourite lightpainting haunt!?
The old factory in question was a refractories facility close to Matlock in Derbyshire, England. It's about a 40 mile drive from me so not exactly local and driving all that way only to be turned away by a security guard is not an option. Especially now since fuel for my batmobile is so expensive.
Inside the factory are wide open spaces with curved roofs and long narrow corridors. It's like a playground for lightpainters since there are so many places to shoot in.
Along the first floor is a long gallery or walkway with a cool roof supporting structure. This gallery has featured in my images from here quite a bit and last night we found ourselves up on the first floor again.
For this shot I set up a gelled flashgun at the rear of frame and asked the model, @inksurgeon to stand in the middle. We set off a smoke pellet to provide background seperation behind the subject. Once happy with the main part of the image, I replaced the lens cap without ending the exposure.
I then turned on a couple of tactically placed RGB LED cubes pointed at the steelwork. I then removed the lens cap and rotated the blue lit steel structure for a total of eight ways. The camera is rotated around the lens axis and I expose each segment for a couple of seconds before rotating the camera.
Possibly a bit complicated to explain to the non-lightpainter but I can say that this image was made in one photographic exposure.
Refractory Faffery
I managed to get back in to an abandoned factory I thought was lost forever and was secured by fences and security guards. Now it seems all the guards have gone and the gates were wide open. And who am I to refuse another chance to visit an old favourite lightpainting haunt!?
The old factory in question was a refractories facility close to Matlock in Derbyshire, England. It's about a 40 mile drive from me so not exactly local and driving all that way only to be turned away by a security guard is not an option. Especially now since fuel for my batmobile is so expensive.
Inside the factory are wide open spaces with curved roofs and long narrow corridors. It's like a playground for lightpainters since there are so many places to shoot in.
Along the first floor is a long gallery or walkway with a cool roof supporting structure. This gallery has featured in my images from here quite a bit and last night we found ourselves up on the first floor again.
For this shot I set up a gelled flashgun at the rear of frame and asked the model, @inksurgeon to stand in the middle. We set off a smoke pellet to provide background seperation behind the subject. Once happy with the main part of the image, I replaced the lens cap without ending the exposure.
I then turned on a couple of tactically placed RGB LED cubes pointed at the steelwork. I then removed the lens cap and rotated the blue lit steel structure for a total of eight ways. The camera is rotated around the lens axis and I expose each segment for a couple of seconds before rotating the camera.
Possibly a bit complicated to explain to the non-lightpainter but I can say that this image was made in one photographic exposure.